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IBIC
Section Five
GPIB-PC User Manual
5-2
©National Instruments Corp.
Running
IBIC
The
IBIC
program,
IBIC.EXE
, is an executable file that was copied
from the distribution diskette to a subdirectory called
GPIB-PC
when
you ran
IBSTART
at installation.
To run
IBIC
, change directory to
C:\GPIB-PC
and enter:
C:\GPIB-PC>
ibic
National Instruments
Interface Bus Interactive Control
Program (IBIC)
Copyright (c) 1984 National Instru
ments, Inc.
All Rights Reserved
Type "help" for help.
Use IBFIND to initially open a boa
rd or device.
Use SET to select an already opene
d board or device.
Messages will appear on the screen that give you information about the
HELP
,
IBFIND
, and
SET
commands.
The first input prompt to
IBIC
is a colon (
:
).
NOTE: In using
IBIC
, the four most important functions are the
HELP
,
IBFIND
,
IBWRT
, and
IBRD
commands.